"Climate is no longer a major cause of deaths, thanks in large part to fossil fuels...The popular climate discussion has the issue backwards. It looks at man as a destructive force for climate livability, one who makes the climate dangerous because we use fossil fuels. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite; we don’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous climate and make it safe. High-energy civilization, not climate, is the driver of climate livability.”

Most lies are not brazen rejections of truth. If they were, they would be easily rejected by most people's common sense.

No, the power of a lie is that it usually takes a half truth (which draws you in) and then mix it with error.

That's what the serpent did when he lured Adam and Eve into the Fall. He said something that was true ("knowing good and evil") and wrapped it with an untruth ("You certainly won't die!"). They bought that lie and the world was changed (Genesis 3:1-6)

Islam is also based on a number of half truths. Therein lies its power and attraction.